Over at The Guardian, Charlotte Jonestakes issue with the recently announced sequel of Pride and Prejudice. The book by Terri Fleming will focus on the life of Mary Bennett, a character who is deliberately neglected by Jane Austen. As Jones puts it, “Lizzie only has space in the book for a remarkable interior life because her sisters do not. Even beautiful Jane is a bit insipid – a fact Austen knowingly plays with, as her eventual engagement to Bingley is briefly threatened by Jane’s reticence.”

"Fantasy is a tool of the storyteller. It is a way of talking about things that are not, and cannot be, literally true. It is a way of making our metaphors concrete, and it shades into myth in one direction, allegory in another." Neil GaimanreviewsKazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant for the New York Times Book Review and considers the power, and risks, of fantasy. Pair with Ishiguro's talk with The Telegraph about the 10 years since the publication of Never Let Me Go.

"On one occasion, my brother had looked over my shoulder, shuddered, and announced to my mother and father that I was reading porn. ‘No, I’m not!’ I replied, but he was right in a way." Harry/Draco? Ron x Hermione? Confessions of a fanfiction addict.